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Sunday, October 23, 2016

ABCs for Better Blogging: A Challenge

This
is personal. It is a concept I developed lately to become a better blogger. I
call it “My 5 ABCs for Better Blogging Challenge”, since I made this for
myself. Why would I do such a thing, you ask?

I
do it because I re-visited some of my old blog posts from a few years ago and
realized I had missed many opportunities to interact more meaningfully with visitors
to my blog. There were many things I could have done differently that would
have made me more engaging as a blogger.

Thinking
about the missed many opportunities made me realize I could do a whole lot better
as a blogger. So I decided to change the way I do things as I blog, blog, blog
here on Blogger.

Following
is my list of things to do and ways to interact to become a better blogger.

Things
to do to become a better blogger:

A – Always reply to comments
on posts. Remember that people took their valuable time to visit your blog and
to read your post, and even more of their time to leave a comment.

B – Be kind, Be courteous, Be supportive. If you (I) don’t have anything good to say, don’t
say anything. .. just click away.

C – Carefullycraft your
comments to the topic of a post. Don’t just throw out some meaningless
gibberish, it’s insulting.

D – Do unto other Bloggers
what you want done unto you. This is self explanatory, needs no further messing
with.

E – Each time you visit a post, read it before commenting. It can make
or break your credibility if your comment is unrelated to the topic.

That’s
it, my personal challenge to myself to improve the quality of my Blogging experience
and also the experience of those that I interact with. Do you have any ideas
for better blogging? Add them in the comments section. This is a way we can
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3 comments:

I try to add a photo and keep my posts shorter so that it doesn't require a lot of time to read. I know bloggers often have a lot of people they want to visit. I try to write a response to someone who is commenting Anonymously because they don't have a blog where I can make that connection. I don't respond to every comment I get because I just can't keep it up. I'm having a hard time right now just trying to visit blogging friends and I feel guilty about that. I guess every blogger looks for different things, but this is what I try to do.